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Cutting Out Future Building Secrecy
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By HECTOR C. BYWATER.
On the subject of cruisers the U.S. delegation proved more ac- commodating and agreed to suspend, for some years at any rate, the bullding of 10,000-ton ships with. 8in guns. Thua, for the duration of the forthcoming trenty, all now cruisers will be restricted to 8,000 tons and 6.1in guna. For other types re- vised or existing limits have been confirmed, namely, air- craft-carriera 22,000 tons; de- stroyers, 1,850 tons, submarines, 2,000 tons.
COST OF SHIPS The concession in regard to chequered the Intimate relation of naval scheme were raised by the other cruisers is of considerable im- AFTER
armaments to policies. Six parties, and eventually it was portance to this country. The career of three months months before had come the dis- replaced by a less comprehensive Government's new defence plan the London Naval Confer- closure of Geremany's rearma- plan, which has found general will necessitate the building of
ment, involving, inter alia, a big favour.
some 25 cruisers during the next ence has resulted in an naval programme. One of the It binds cach Power to com- five or six years. Hnd the form- a de municate, in the early part of er quantitative limit on this type Agreement of sorts, and it is immediate results was
claration by France of "com- each calendar year, reasonably remained in force many of the now possible to measure plete freedom of action" in the full details of its shipbuilding new vessels would have had to some of its achievements. future development of her own, programme, the number and be of 9,000 to 10,000 tone, for types of ships concerned, their it is bad policy to build ships Beginning as a five-Power naval armaments.
Furthermore, the preliminary tonnage, armament and other inferior in tonnago and arma- meana ment to foreign contemporaries. meeting it ended in what talks held in London during the relevant data. By this was practically a tripartite autumn of 1934 had revealed naval preparations should be As it is, however, none of the of new cruisers will exceed 8,000 acute differences between the divested of the clement
Since current building conclave. Japan broke Powers concerned on funda- secrecy which in past years has tons.
been a fruitful cause of inter- costs for this type average £200- - national friction.
a ton, there may be a saving of Had the Conference achieved as much as £260,000 on the price
RATIOS OVERBOARD
it
away in the second month, mental points of naval policy. and Italy,
In view of these antecedent though, still nominally a member, re- events, a conference aiming at no more than this, its labours of cach new cruiser, or £6,250,- the retrenchment of naval forces would have been amply justified. 000 on the entire cruiser pro- fused to append her signa- seemed to be foredoomed to But it has further results to gramme. That is a very sub-
stantial gain. ture to any covenant which failure. There was, indeed, a show.
widely-held conviction that The qualitative restriction of Stubbs Rd,
On the dobit side must be may issue from the proceed- must prove utterly sterile, naval armaments is second in
Happily, that belief has been importance only to their quanti- placed the heavy cost of our ings.
tation. During the 15 years now capital ships, which are un- That the result of the Con- From the Anglo-American preceding the Washington Con- likely to be of less displacement than 33,500 tons. Hopes are cost of ference fall far short of the viewpoint the main purpose of ference the size and original is only too evident. the Conference was to continue battleships had been trebled; still cherished that the U.S. of quantitative cruisers had become almost as naval authorities will in a few The surprising fact is, how the system
pre-war battle years' time consent to review ever, not that comparatively lit limitation estrublished by the expensive, as tie has emerged from it but Washington Treaty of 1921 and ships, and in every country the that anything positive should supplemented by the London in- cost of naval defence was being
strument of 1930, both of which forced up to ruinous figures. have emerged at all.
lapse on December 31, 1936.
ANNONCEMENT.
A marriage has been arranges and will shortly take place between Captain Vivian Poplsan, The South Wales Bonierers, youngest Ross of the late Dr. Popham, of Bantry, and Miss Patricia Cecilia Moere, only child of the Inte Captain Robert Chetwood, Moore, Mrs. H. M. Indian Army, and Fordham.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
It assembled under the worst conditions imaginable, in the midst of the Itulo-Abyssinian crisis, which emphasiseil · anew
falsified.
the question of battleship dimen-
all other naval experts are un- siens, which in the opinion of duly inflated.
NEW LIMITATIONS Such limitation could be made
A formal treaty embodying as This movement was arrested its main features the annual effectual only by adhering to the ratio formula on which the by the Washington-London trea- exchange of information as to the shipbuilding programmes and expiring agreements are based. ties, which fixed limits to Japan, however, flatly refused to tonnage displacement and gun the new qualitative limits on consider any proposal embody- calibre of every type of man- future construction has been NOTES OF THE DAY ing the ratio method, which she of-war. Though several of the approved at a plenary session of
held to be injurious to her limits were excessive in British the Conference.
STICKING TO LEAGUE
POWERS' ATTITUDE
prestige. WEDNESDAY, APR. 22, 1936,
Instead, she luid opinion, they were certainly bet- claim to 2 "common upper ter than nothing, and there was limit" of naval tonnage, equiva-a danger, that when the exist Some minor technical points ALIEN OFFICERS ON
Mr. Anthony Eden has made it clear that Great Britain is sticking lent to full naval equality with ing treaties expired a new race remain to be settled, but unless BRITISH SHIPS
to the League of Nations, that she the British Empire and the in tons and guns might develop, an unforeseen hitch occurs in British policy at the present diplomatic procedure the accept- For reasons lucidly explained Conference has aimed at fixing ance of this new treaty for the About a month ago, Hongkong will support sanctions against Italy United States.
and, in the matter of penalties was presented with a shipping against an aggressor, will go on for at the time, neither of those new and much narrower limits timitation of naval armaments problem when IL London-
But. two Powers was able to accept for future construction. Capital by the British Empire, the as the other member-states. registered steamer, chartered by Mr. Eden reiterates, Britain will this demand. Both argued with ships were to be restricted to United States, and France is as- a Japanese company, but flying go no farther. For this reason the unanswerable logic that equality 25,000 tons, as against 35,000, sured. The possibility of naval the Red Ensign, arrived in port construction placed by some obser of armaments would not and and cruisers cut down from 10.- rivalry between those Powers with the whole of her officers vers in Geneva upon the Foreign could not confer equality of 000 to 7,000 tons. Submarines during the currency of the and crew, excepting three Secretary's speech, and their Bug-security. Britons, of Japanese nationality. gention that it carries an ominous
her clearance vessel Attempts made to refuse the hint of independent action against papers Italy, seems a little far-fetched. failed, on the ground that, by We have not at hand the precise text of the address he delivered to
YEAR'S PROGRAMMES
common
waters.
should be wholly abolished, or treaty has thus been sensibly re- alternatively dwarfed to a size, duced. say 250 tons, which would con-
Negotiations with a view to After the definite rejection of fine them to coastal
upper These proposals, with the excep- bringing Germany and Russia her claim to a
into the compact are proceeding, reason of the run on which the the League Courcii, but the gist of limit, Japan formally withdrew tion of the submarine plan; were Germany has already signified ship was engaged, no, infringe-t is that should the League lose from the Conference on January approved in principle by Japan, her readiness to conclude with France and Italy, all of whom Great Britain a separate agree ment of the provisions of the what prestige and authority it has 14, but left two "observers." Shipping Acts in regard to left, should this be the result of As her secession destroyed the favour smaller warships. personnel had been committed, the fallure of conciliation in the last hope of achieving any con- But the United States, whose ment covering all the points of During the past week-end, Italo-Ethiopian dispute, nations will
crete measure of quantitative naval policy is dominated by the Three-Power Treaty, and another vessel similarly officered have to reconsider_their_policies came into port. These are the Britain amongst them. Just how limitation, the remaining four the contingency of war in the Russia is understood to be will Thus, the only Powers liable to first two ships to arrive here he would propose to alter the Powers addressed themselves to vast spaces of the Pacific, where ing-to take similar-action. under these circumstances, but British foreign policy if the League the task of devising other means bases are few and far between, remain outside the covenant are no longer existed, or existed only of checking naval competition. and who therefore regards her the question of the right to
as a substantial burial place of the Britain suggested a plan by battleships as mobile points Italy and Japan,
The former's abstention is due operate such British-registered world's ideals, Mr. Eden gives us which euch country would com- d'appui, held out firmly for vessels, with the majority of no hint. However, some interpret municate to the others the larger dimensions. So the old to political causes unrelated to Should officers and crew of alien na-his remarks as significant, and they maximum aggregate of naval limit of 35,000 tons for capital the Conference itself, tionality, had already been may be.
tonnage it proposed to build ships is to be retained, but new they cease to operate there is raised in the House of Commons. We are prepared to admit that over a period of five or six years. ships will mount guns of 14in in connection with craft engaged there appears to be what the Amer!-Various
in the Mediterranean trade. It can advertising experts so aptly was then disclosed that, under call a "build up in progress, which the existing laws, nothing could is actually a psychological prepara- be done in the matter. The tion for an announcement or event.
objections to this instead of 16in.
position, it appears, is covered ir. Duff-Cooper, the War Seere- SIDE GLANCES by a section of the Aliens Regis- tary, is the latest contributor to tration (Amendment) Act of the campaign. He has asked the to 1919, which lays down that no Church of England to make its
with regard alien shall act as master, chief position clear
soldiering. He wants to know officer or chief engineer of any
whether one is not justified in British merchant ship' registered taking up arms if one's treasured in the United Kingdom, "except possessions are threatened with in the case of a ship or boat destruction. What is one to do, employed habitually in voyages for instance, if a robber walks between ports outside the into one's home and picks up the United Kingdom." It will be silverware? As did the priest in seen from this particular provi- Les Miserables give the stuff liko the Hongkong sion that nothing could be done away? Or by the local authorities even if police in the case of the robbery the two ships to which reference of the Chief Detective Inspector: has been made had been, wholly put the robber away? There are some who will maintain that any officered by aliens, with no man who can rob the C.D.I. deserves Britons whatever employed on a reward, rather than imprison- board. Indeed, to carry thement: but that, of course, has point further, British vessels nothing to do with the argument!
on Far regularly employed
Eastern runs, and not touching
at United Kingdom ports, could, guaranteed by flying the Red if they so wished, wholly dis- Ensign. To say the least of it, ponse with British personnel, the position is most unsatisfac where they tory. Apart altogether from except, of course,
are passenger-carrying craft, the loss of employment which when they become liable to the existing conditions cause conditions of passenger licences British mariners, there is
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British ports. It is true that that in times of emergency it such ships are required to carry might be found that certain certificated officers, but even sections of the British Merchant this definition is none too clear Navy were honeycombed with contingency which in the Merchant Shipping Acte. aliens, The main point is that aliens could not be lightly viewed. As can charter British ships, wholly the law now stands, this is a with non-British very real danger, and there is manthem officers and crows, operate them abvious need for further amend- with foreign capital, and con-ment aiming at complete British tinue to enjoy the protection') officering of all British ships.
little doubt that Italy will ac-. cept the treaty, in the framing of which her own delegates have taken an active part. Japan is in different case. Since the
By George Clark treaty is none of her making,
"It's very simple. If we can tolerate the Baxters they will Introduce us to the Ashleya and wo should be able to meet
the Harringtons through them."
she is most unlikely ever to be- come a signatory. Unofficially, however, she will probably find It to her interest, alike for po- litical and for economic reasons, to abide by the qualitative re- strictions of the new treaty. Whother she will take part in the reciprocal exchange of in- formation on annual program- mes remains to be seen.
OUTLOOK FOR FUTURE Assuming the eventual ad- hesion of Italy, the new treaty will regulate for a term of years the qualitative development of all the major navies of the world, excepting the Japanese. Fur- ther, for as long as it remains in operation, the exact strength of the naval forces of each signa- tory in any given year will be known to all the others, a fact which can hardly fail to allay mistrust and ill-feeling. That a conference which met in face of the most formidable difficul- tles should yet have produced these very substantial results is surely an achievement deserving full recognition..
Although quantitative limita- tion has not been attained on paper, it is generally believed that the excessivo coat of modern naval material, particularly abroad, will act as an automatic brake on the future expansion of naval armaments.